Course Description

Oil analysis and lubricant performance is your passion, and if you’re ready to be an expert authority for your company and lead a comprehensive, in-house analysis program – Oil Analysis III is the training you need to make this a reality.

Oil Analysis III is designed to give managers and reliability professionals the right know-how to develop and implement a strong oil analysis program for their workplace or company. In addition to learning the right metrics for program implementation and evaluation, the OA III student will study the most advanced levels of diagnostics and predictive maintenance to ensure program success.

Level III Course Outline

Base Oil Fundamentals

How mineral base oil groups compare on 9 criteria

How synthetic oils compare to mineral oils

Advantages and disadvantages of common synthetic lubricants

How wear and friction control additives work

The role of fatty acids, AW and EP lubrication films

Understanding and Analyzing Machine Wear

16 factors that cause changes in wear debris concentrations

Effects of water on bearings

31 factors leading to abnormal engine wear

How to enhance the detection of abnormal wear particle trends

One simple technique to help you detect faults earlier

Review of technologies used to analyze wear debris

Particle size sensitivities of wear particle technologies

Comparison of laboratory emission spectrometers

How wear particle size influences spectrometric analysis

How to determine the severity of a wear problem

How to evaluate lock-step trends

How to normalize for makeup oil

Potential sources of metals in oil

Best applications for elemental analysis of wear metals

Advantages and disadvantages of analytical ferrography

How filtergrams compare to ferrograms

How to characterize particle composition by visual inspection

Shape features of common wear particles

Common machine wear mechanisms and how to identify them

11 sources of spherical wear particles and how to identify them

How to recognize wear zones in gearing

Integrating Oil Analysis with Vibration Analysis

Failure detection zones of oil versus vibration analysis

Where oil and vibration analysis overlap

Strengths and weaknesses of oil and vibration analysis on detecting 13 machine problems